Cinema: Dark Laughter

Last year a well-to-do, cinema-struck minister named James K. Friedrich
formed Cathedral Films, made a religious picture, The Great
Commandment, for some $130,000, sold it to 20th Century-Fox for
$200,000. Also working on The Great Commandment was jovial, jug-shaped
Jed Buell, who has done a little producing of his own. His Harlem on
the Prairie, the first all-Negro western, grossed $50,000.

Last month Producers Friedrich and Buell put their picture-smart heads
together. Buell organized Dixie National Pictures Inc., started
organizing the Dixie National Film Exchange, Inc. to peddle films to
400 U. S....